carol davidson figured out how to get the obama message to those specific voters.eveloped something called the optimizer. it showed her what television shows the persuadables were watching and when. this information was sold by some cable companies. >> we were able to get the data from our vendor and at the same time pair that data to the voter file data. >> there's also a lot of people find this creepy, used in a political campaign. >> at the end of the day, you get e-mails and mail sent to your house all the time that you didn't know the person who sends them to you and they knew your name. >> i could say hi peter, this is barack obama. that might be jarring and it would freak you out. is it just different or is it really a concern about your life. >> give me an example of a program that i didn't expect -- >> we've aired stuff on judge judy and all over the place. >> did you have a way of testing whether or not the optimizer was working? >> if you're defining success like we won the election. if we define success how did the optimizer specifically do it, the only